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The FLGS when I was in high school once told me that to replace the Hive Tyrant I was buying, he'd have to buy $250 worth of random GW shit, because GW wouldn't just send him a Hive Tyrant. And that was decades ago, $250 wasn't a small order.

The FLGS I go to now has an ungodly small amount of space -- maybe 200 square feet for the entire store. And an entire wall is dedicated to GW products because GW forces him to do that if he wants a partner account with them. This includes a 6 foot tall wireframe display rack of Citadel paint, many of the pots of which are ruined because it's hard to shift some of the paint.

Every army of the week he has to fully stock, even if it never shifts, for example. And don't get him started on Codexes, they're completely useless after a certain point and he can't get a refund or anything, but has to carry all of them.

GW's business practices are downright toxic.
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Mine is a CANDY STORE that does hobbyshit on the side and GW made them carry stuff like the Kroot army box and a whole kill team battlefield.
 
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Snekposter said:
I can't think of a time when Kroot have been anything other than a fucking joke. They're mediocre in melee, terrible at shooting, have no armor... I'm sure there's a few other downsides I'm missing.
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It really is a shame that GW went all in on fucking kroot of all things for Tau (I mean, considering how little Xenos factions get, 3 battle line units is basically all-in). They should stick to what theyve been doing: new, unique Kill Teams to round out armies and offer customization. Tau's lack of different species being a prime example of an easy include. KT is better than standard 40k anyway.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
The FLGS when I was in high school once told me that to replace the Hive Tyrant I was buying, he'd have to buy $250 worth of random GW shit, because GW wouldn't just send him a Hive Tyrant. And that was decades ago, $250 wasn't a small order.

The FLGS I go to now has an ungodly small amount of space -- maybe 200 square feet for the entire store. And an entire wall is dedicated to GW products because GW forces him to do that if he wants a partner account with them. This includes a 6 foot tall wireframe display rack of Citadel paint, many of the pots of which are ruined because it's hard to shift some of the paint.

Every army of the week he has to fully stock, even if it never shifts, for example. And don't get him started on Codexes, they're completely useless after a certain point and he can't get a refund or anything, but has to carry all of them.

GW's business practices are downright toxic.
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great to see that nothing ever changes :story:

heard the same story from a colleague who ran a FLGS on the side... 15 fucking years ago.
 
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Hermione Granger said:
Multiple Stores Announce Their Discontinuation of Games Workshop and Warhammer 40,000 Products
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Thank you for sharing the article. I'm not really one who goes looking for these, so I appreciate you keeping an eye out, even if I dont much care for the content.

In any case I hope you all are holding strong against temptation this Christmas

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daniel day said:
>starts off talking about femstodes, the sargon of akkad, etc stuff
>one store is not selling GW models, but still selling paint
>the other cant get their shipments on time
You fucking feral baboons are the reason the actual criticisms for the direction GW is taking are treated like jokes. Its got the same airs as the feds lumping flat earthers in with the people that called out MK Ultra, its so egregiously obvious.

Neck rope and fuck off, tourist.
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And even the store that couldn't get their shipments on time(RIW hobbies), we don't know the entire story regarding what was going on, how they had been ordering in the past, etc. but we do know they're mostly a TCG focused and general hobby shop(rc cars, model rockets, etc.) anyway based on everything publicly available about them.
Also, what a weirdly high number of 1 star reviews over the past couple of years. 38 reviews and 1/3 of them are 1 star. This sounds like some grumpy old fuck running a shop, not bothering to make sure their staff is actually doing their jobs, and not wanting to deal with GW game players in general(even for card sales they get 1 star reviews though).

Even Paradise Games, can't find anything about them or where they are, shows a picture that really only shows the retail rack just about the most basic one that you'll see up a comic book store or whatever that only has some starter kits on it. Clearly that store was not heavily invested in selling GW product. This is the kind of retail shelf presence you see in a store actually moving a lot of GW product
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The stores in question likely go through fuck all for inventory, and this is going to have effectively ZERO impact on GW even in the short term, as if they did have a customer base, those customers will just go elsewhere(and probably already had to). That's not to say GW doesn't have shitty business practices, they absolutely do. But one of these shops being brought up... that happened in fucking August.
Like they point out(regarding the RIW store) we don't know what was actually going on behind the scenes, it's entirely possible that they were a pain in the ass retailer to even deal with that moved little product and never got priority for anything. But there's no reason to use this as some dumb shit to try and scream about GW over.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
The FLGS when I was in high school once told me that to replace the Hive Tyrant I was buying, he'd have to buy $250 worth of random GW shit, because GW wouldn't just send him a Hive Tyrant. And that was decades ago, $250 wasn't a small order.
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It is so clear now.
GW think they are Ferrari.
 
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Hermione Granger said:
Merry Christmas & Screw The Woke..

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Who the hell is this tattooed idiot supposed to be? And what does he have to do with the obvious grifter shit you posted?
augment said:
It is so clear now.
GW think they are Ferrari.
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Absolutely. It's also why they enforce MAP(minimum advertised price) for retailers in North America. With all of the whining online about prices, the fact of the matter is that anyone who can afford this shit, or has the time to be painting and then playing with plastic army men, is engaging in a luxury. It's also the same reason they can operate brick and mortar stores where you can't really play(not that they're big enough to actually host more than 2 games at a time anyway), pretend that nothing exists outside of their own product lines(even for shit like paint brushes, glue, palettes, and so on), seemingly operate them at a loss and treat them purely as product show-rooms. They even sell all the same lifestyle type merch(clothes, candles, etc.) bullshit that Ferrari and other brands do.
 
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Terra did have an underhive, but it mostly still worked.

If we consider that it is an administrative center, most of the people on Earth would be administratum pen pushers and other assorted scribes.

So not rich but not the lowest of the low either.
 
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Judge Holden said:
the fact the custodes are offhandedly noted to keep shit worse than the Ctan and possibly even the Chaos gods locked up under the Imperial palace
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The Navigators have these in their estates, too. Since they have to be constantly in contact with the Warp, their manors are like heavily fortified Epstein Islands where horrid shit goes down and cursed artifacts are on display.

The Imperium mostly turns a blind eye to what goes down inside because they need them.
 
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Male Idiot said:
Terra did have an underhive, but it mostly still worked.

If we consider that it is an administrative center, most of the people on Earth would be administratum pen pushers and other assorted scribes.

So not rich but not the lowest of the low either.
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There’s also the horde of pilgrims who will literally die waiting in queue to see Terra
 
Snekposter said:
I can't think of a time when Kroot have been anything other than a fucking joke. They're mediocre in melee, terrible at shooting, have no armor... I'm sure there's a few other downsides I'm missing.
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They aren't compatible with the rest of your army. T'au, more often than not, explicitly exclude Kroot/Vespid from Army rules, abilities, and stratagems. The only way T'au are hitting on 3s is if another unit guides them. Guess who can't spot targets? Kroot. Guess who can't benefit from spotters? Kroot. If they were mid units on their own that might not be so bad. But T'au relies on units that can coordinate with each other, at least with For the Greater Good, and Kroot are the only ones (aside from Ethereals strangely) who do not have any access to the army rule. The only way is the brand new detachment that lets you buy an enhancement to allow one unit to use the army rule.
 
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Snekposter said:
I can't think of a time when Kroot have been anything other than a fucking joke. They're mediocre in melee, terrible at shooting, have no armor... I'm sure there's a few other downsides I'm missing.
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I’m actually still debating buying the box, selling the parts I don’t want and turning the Kroot into cultists, I kinda wanna do actual peacocks to go with the peacock legion.

It’s partially a pity thing, a hobby shop in my neck of the woods is a godsend and I know a guy who would pay twenty bucks for the Kroot pups alone.
 
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They aren't compatible with the rest of your army. T'au, more often than not, explicitly exclude Kroot/Vespid from Army rules, abilities, and stratagems. The only way T'au are hitting on 3s is if another unit guides them. Guess who can't spot targets? Kroot. Guess who can't benefit from spotters? Kroot. If they were mid units on their own that might not be so bad. But T'au relies on units that can coordinate with each other, at least with For the Greater Good, and Kroot are the only ones (aside from Ethereals strangely) who do not have any access to the army rule. The only way is the brand new detachment that lets you buy an enhancement to allow one unit to use the army rule.
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Funny you should say that, the new detachment that came out this week is intended to address that exact problem.

 
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